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  The Ides of March

  

  , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... happen again? "Who or where is the next Einstein?" No question is more ... and more students are becoming involved with research at the high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  Before you ask where my blog title ("The McGann Factor") came from, I'll just come right out and tell you: Ben made me choose it. But I've grown ... friends. You may or may not know that the O'Reilly books are noted for their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  . After an also-difficult sophomore year, here are some strategies I ... ="professors are scary!"]reluctant to attend office hours,[/annotation]but my ... , UROPs, other extracurriculars, etc"]classes[/annotation] are why you are

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  games when they are growing up, like playing house and things like that ... is that the lectures are so eclectic and wide-ranging that you're bound ... professor invited, and then dinner where the subject matter is discussed in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  on some of colloquialisms that you are learning? That would be awesome ... "no eres tú, soy yo." The translation is almost exact: "you are not you ... phone, "soy yo" ("I am me") instead of "it's me" ("the person you are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are ... incredibly kind, brilliant, hilarious, and inspiring, and they made me into who ... friends are quite similar, as I tend to gravitate towards introspective self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  ???? I applied. I interviewed. And now, I'm back to where it all began ... ® when really I am just a friendly acquaintance, and ugh now I’ve made it weird sorry Jess. Jess is the only blogger to have ever made me laugh and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be meeting you! In fact, they are so excited to meet you that we would like to ... where I lived until 8 then my family moved to sunny southern California

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  the Forum in Inglewood, California, where he brought out a gospel choir ... 'all in a box. They have you in a box. You can save the world, but you are working on things that are too small. Take a step back, stop worrying about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  from chipotle with the app, i will have enough points to get a free ... saying that i was one of the people who made them feel most welcome and it made me cry thinking i actually made someone feel like that and i have a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  off an indication that I was only there for free stuff. At first I ... of my freshmen friends got internships, which made me start worrying ... freshly pressed suit, and made my way to the Career Fair. I talked with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  obsessive map-scanning, and the free stuff-hoarding, but there's still plenty ... world ‚ô• I haven't quite made it to all the CPW events that have taken ... :) Still, I've made it to some events - and they've been great. First off

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  due on the same day. These are variables that you have little control ... where you must prepare, you can’t do it. You don’t know how. Even the most gifted person in the world will at some point cross a threshold where it

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who are seeking to make a decision about your MIT future by May 1, and ... go where culture is  mom, did you feel emotional the first time you drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  groups are suddenly smaller. It wouldn’t be like MIT, where I live in a ... are rolling around suitcases. We would be travelling to Princeton in two ... next morning to volunteer, and my duties are over by lunch. I use

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  like books I’ve read this year, events I organized, art I made, and even ... putting my pride aside to acknowledge my faults where I’ve hurt the people I ... behind me, and though those moments are ugly, they have been the most

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Vindicated! And the summer of FREEdom begins. (Pictures added)

  

  , when you don't have psets, you go to concerts right? How about free concerts? Tomorrow, a local radio station here in Boston is sponsoring a free ... questions, feel free to ask!

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists ... ," where we write poems to the inktober prompts. We're both not really ... , especially, not for serious poems), some of them are.... interesting. I got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  go to Verdes at 2 am, I can talk about why Verdes is placed where it is ... Verdes, and why you are up at 2am doing a PSET when you could’ve not ... “The people in the North are very rigid, strict, and precise while the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  start tomorrow (or I guess today, if we are being technical about it) and ... late nights are precipitated by something concrete and urgent: a pset, an ... one of my favorite quotes:   “Where we love is home – home that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016